What hath these streaks gone astray?
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All things and stats being relative, where in the pantheon……
Of the Stage’s pressure ….cooking a consecutive day to day display of moneyed ego trips over tumbling yesterdays in the performer’s mortal pursuit of Grand Slam immortality….
Establishing a new level of earth breaking epoch shatteringstatistics gone astray on our cyber spaced out Grand Slamtennis courts..
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Therefore thus heretofore, the feminine interpretation of the Sultan of Swat, Serena Williamns, a tennis prodigy of Compton, California’s hatd courts, two victories shy of Steffi Graf’s thirty thrfee big time tournament victories on the Australia French Wimbledon U.S. Open Grand Slam tour, in Flushing Meadows, Queens, N.Y.…..
Her chase, pursuing Steffi Graf, losing her 3set semi final match to DaVinci “La Dolche Vita” Italian…no relation to Leonardo?..in a tight three setter semi final pursuit.
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So the Sultan of Swat must go back to the boards As the pioneers of the charismatic tennis establishment say…Billy Jean Kings UCLA’s Arthur Ashe stadium, to rediscover the joy and passion which brought her fame nd fortune in the first place.
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For her pursuit and chase to be denied, “Steffi will be here Saturday” bespeaks volumes of the crony authority at Flushing Meadows, failing to put into perspective how to assess the quality a thirty three feminine style Sultan of Swat cult, todominate a 33 year old baby faced “Gigi” Italian player…never before gotten this far in a Grand Slam..
Her one handed backhand in the pantheon of two handed powserplayers brings back to mind the constancy of the “David and Goliath” analogy, the Flushing Meadow connoisseurs verbally groomed…in their analysis, arguing stats, pursuing their crisp tongue lashing of the Sultn of Swat’s “mirror”.
Serena Williams, the Compton, Calikfornia prodigy, pursuing her dream of dethroning Steffi Graf’s 33 Grand Slams into thtothe Guinness Book of Records.
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NO WAY JOSE!
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Whatever the divinity, Serena Williams, a prodigy out of the hard courts of Compton, California could not get to her once instinctual extra gear as she had, pursuing her streak…. two matches away..from establishing a transcending vision of what she, her sister Venus, and their father, Richard, their surrogate coach… tossing used tennis balls in their ambition, overcoming their environmental limitations,(our North Long Beach at Lindberg Jr.High the Compton-L.A. Red cars) as they gained prestige, power, and acclaim in the Sultan of Swat’ family consciousness.
A Cleopatra in disguise, those Bill Tilden used tennis bals of Darwinian metamorphosis to fame and fortune.
An ascension to what was once an all no moneyed amateurAlice Marble Althea Gibson purity.
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So with Lou Gehrig’s game playing steak..”I am the luckiest man on the face of this Earth”..Joe DiMaggio’s consecutive hitting streak of 54 gmes…….…..
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Ted Willikams coming back from two wars, setting his hitting record… 406 batting average…
And then again Babe Ruth’s own 60 four baggers, to be broken by Roger Maris’s 61.
So in this celebrity ridden gage of press agents..all… was not to be…the father maestro Richard Willikams not on the Flushing Meadows “reality scene” to give his moral and visible support to his feminine Sultan of Swat,
Greta Garbo “I vant to be alone”s she raced off her to privacy of sharing Nadal’s own grinding loss two days earlier on thesecourts..
Of her fall from what was once her imperial grace .
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But for “cool and awesome” DaVinci from Italy, her drop shots, sliced one handed backhand, her true grit of Via Nomentana in Novella Roma, off the Via Veneto, the spectacular ascension and all consuming streak of Serena Williams, coming down to Earth, the Compton, California prodigy, realizes her killer instinct has finally come to a cease fire, at the hands of a Da Vinci divinity…masking her own mystique, and all court presence… a prodigy gone stale in deuce and add out points (a few double faults on critical points)on her serve….her nerves gotr to her neurons and constancy of pressure to prove yourself by defeating your own quest, across the net….a “mirror” of what she once was.
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“Don’t look back. You’ll see something gaining on you”..Satchel Paige, pitching in relief, for the Cleveland Indians.
September 12, 2015.The City that never sleeps.
